The Founder to Family program is led by MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer John Davis, a pioneer in the family enterprise field and a globally recognized authority on family enterprise, family wealth, and the family office.
A renowned academic and shaper of the family enterprise field, Davis teaches family business and family office management, and strategies for family enterprises to position themselves for the future.
We are excited to welcome John Davis, a renowned authority in the family enterprise field, to MIT Sloan and look forward to exploring in depth the issues and challenges of family ownership and sustaining multigenerational success.
She opted to study at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford due to the strong reputation it has built in the social enterprise field since being established in 1996, and in 2008 she became a scholar at the school's Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship.
The training can be provided to any and all micro-entrepreneurs who can benefit from this capacity building support, which also solves for the much-needed sharing of back office services within the social enterprise field.
Jim Goetz, a partner at Sequoia Capital, has amassed an impressive career in the enterprise field, helping found VitalSigns and investing in companies such as Jive, Nimble Storage, and Palo Alto Networks, among many others.
What we found astounded us and confirmed what we knew from 25 years of experience in the micro enterprise field.
Most importantly, I am worried that the powerful influence of institutional capital will drive the entire social enterprise field towards the lowest common denominator, not the highest.
At SEG, Kirsten worked to assist organizations and individuals in all sectors to develop efficient and effective social enterprises, was instrumental in building the social enterprise field and served as Vice Chair of the Board of Social Enterprise Alliance for nearly eight years.
